The Role
The Senior Associate - Cyber Resilience enhances the organization's cyber incident preparedness and response, ensuring integration with business continuity and disaster recovery plans, alongside collaboration with various teams for exercises and post-incident readiness.
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JOB PURPOSE
The Senior Associate – Cyber Resilience plays a key role in enhancing the organization's ability to prepare for, withstand, respond to, and recover from cyber incidents. This role bridges cybersecurity operations and business continuity/disaster recovery (BC/DR), ensuring that cyber resilience is embedded across critical systems and processes. Working closely with the SOC, VAPT, IT Infrastructure, and BCP/DR teams, the role drives resilience exercises, recovery testing, and post-incident readiness.
The role is only for UAE National.
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Cyber Resilience Planning & Execution
- Develop and maintain cyber resilience plans aligned with business priorities and cyber threat landscape.
- Support the integration of cyber incident scenarios into enterprise business continuity and disaster recovery planning.
- Define and track cyber-specific Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) for critical services.
Resilience Testing & Validation
- Coordinate and execute regular backup and restore validation, failover tests, and tabletop exercises simulating cyber incidents (e.g., ransomware, DDoS, data breach).
- Partner with IT/Infra teams to assess the resilience of infrastructure and critical applications.
- Monitor effectiveness of cyber recovery capabilities and ensure readiness of key systems and teams.
Cyber Crisis Management Support
- Support the Security operational lead for resilience during major cyber incidents.
- Maintain and test the cyber crisis communication and escalation framework.
- Support coordination between SOC, IR, business units, and executive teams during crises.
Incident Response & Post-Incident Readiness
- Assist the SOC and IR team in aligning incident response playbooks with resilience and recovery requirements.
- Participate in post-incident reviews to identify resilience gaps and track lessons learned to closure.
- Ensure cyber recovery scenarios are updated based on evolving threats and incidents.
Metrics & Continuous Improvement
- Define and report on cyber resilience KPIs/KRIs (e.g., exercise success rate, recovery time effectiveness, backup health status).
- Develop dashboards and management reporting on resilience preparedness and maturity.
- Identify areas for automation or process improvement in recovery and readiness workflows.
Stakeholder Collaboration
- Liaise with Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Risk, and IT Infrastructure teams to ensure cyber risks are addressed in continuity plans.
- Provide cyber resilience expertise in audits, assessments, and regulatory reviews.
- Collaborate with third-party vendors and service providers to evaluate and improve their cyber resilience posture (as applicable).
RELATED YEARS OF EXPERIENCE
Min of 6+ years of experience in cybersecurity, IT operations, or business continuity roles.
TECHNICAL AND INTERPERSONAL SKILLS
- Hands-on experience in incident response, backup and recovery validation, and cyber crisis management.
- Strong understanding of cyber threats and recovery challenges
- Analytical thinking and problem-solving in high-pressure scenarios
- Excellent communication and coordination skills across technical and business teams
- Attention to detail with documentation and reporting
- Self-driven, structured, and collaborative working style
QUALIFICATION
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or related field.
- CBCP (Certified Business Continuity Professional)
- CRISC, CISM or equivalent
- ITIL, ISO 27001/27031 knowledge
- GIAC certifications in incident response, resilience, or cyber defense are a plus
Top Skills
Iso 27001/27031
Itil
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The Company
What We Do
AlDar Properties was incorporated in 2004 by the founder, Mr. Sulaiman Al-Banai.
The company is engaged in property management of multi-family residential properties & commercial properties throughout Doha, Qatar.
We are focused on maintaining a large diverse portfolio of properties; furnished, semi-furnished & unfurnished. Here at AlDar Properties, we are committed in giving our valued customers the best quality at affordable prices, with no agency fee. We are simply the experts in the art of real estate with a team that is trained to understand all of your needs and provide you with clear expert advice to help you easily navigate the process and give you the best living experience
